From 2001, Sweden Rules, okay?

The Soundtrack of Our Lives
Behind The Music
(Warner/Telegram)
www.tsool.com
This awesomely dense and near-perfect rock album could only come from our friends in Sweden. Over the last few years, the Swedes have offered many of the most excitingly unique bands there is to hear when it comes to straight ahead, no frills rawk and pop. Some of the members of TSOOL were formerly in a tidy little rock group called Union Carbide Productions and are no strangers to creating loud sounds with electric instruments. This band fully engages their sixties and early seventies influences well, pulling mournful acoustic guitar forays from Pink Floyd, heavily dosed Procol Harum organ antics and plenty of Rolling Stones flick riffs. With repeated listens you may find a shifting array of fave tunes. “Broken Imaginary Time” has a kind of sad warmth, “Sister Surround” rumbles righteously and “Still Aging” could be Oasis if they were less in awe of themselves. The use of clay masks for the cover imagery adds an extra layer of mystique to a band that obviously cares more about their music than what they project visually. A winner.
Jeff Monk

The MONk 2009 view - I still like these guys a lot. As a fan of much of what they have output it can't be denied that they are of the times yet, somehow in their own special way, of another, more musical tyme. They blend so many influences together (60's psychedelia, pop, hard rock and beyond) to create their unique brew that one would be hard-pressed to find another band so ill-fitted to the times. Yet, they somehow attain majesty at some point in many of their songs. Their latest is a two-disc monster that is as lengthy as it is good. Hope this helps!